Hirdey Ram

Reading the Hanuman Natak: Hirdey Ram Bhalla and the World of Braj Court Poetry

This course studies the Hanuman Natak, a Braj-language poetic work attributed to Hirdey Ram Bhalla, and treats it as a piece of classical literature rather than scripture. We learn who Hirdey Ram was as a court-connected poet in the literary world around the time of Guru Gobind Singh Ji, what kind of text the…